Following the 2010 request by Kazakhstan to initiate an NPD on water, the NPD process started in the country in 2012. This page provides further information about the NPD process and its achievements in Kazakhstan.

The upcoming EU Water Initiative (EUWI) working group meeting reviews the implementation of National Policy Dialogues on integrated water resources management and on water supply and sanitation in selected countries of the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) region.

The EUWI EECCA is the regional component of the EU Water Initiative focused on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA). It supports work of the European Neighbourhood Policy and of the EU-Central Asia Platform for Environment and Water Cooperation, and helps to promote the progressive approximation to EU water policies, particularly to the EU Water Framework Directive, in EECCA countries.

The objectives of the meeting held on 5-6 June was to review the design and implementation of environmentally related credit lines supported by international financial institutions (IFIs) and donors which were disbursed through local commercial banks in EaP countries. The outcomes of the meeting would help governments in the region improve the policy- and regulatory environment for green lending.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is organising a national workshop on Green Economy Assessment (simulation modelling) on 10-11 April 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. The workshop is delivered jointly with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the Scientific Research Institute under the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. This is part of the EaP GREEN work programme. Consult the provisional programme.

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This workshop presented and discussed the draft Policy Manual on “Creating Market Incentives for Greener Products”. It focused on facilitating an exchange of experiences and support the design and implementation of product-related economic instruments including product taxes, environmental tax differentiation, deposit-refund systems and extended producer responsibility (EPR)in the EECCA countries.

This meeting took place on 24-25 October 2013 in Helsinki, Finland, and was co-organised by the Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), the OECD/Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental Action Programme (EAP Task Force) and UNECE. It presented an opportunity to review the implementation of National Policy Dialogues on integrated water resources management and on water supply and sanitation in EECCA countries.